By Jeremy Paden|2017-10-15T11:29:53-04:00October 15th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
How to Peel an Orange by Jeremy Paden My Puerto Rican grandmother had a contraption a peeler a clamp that held the orange in place with rods an axis on which the orb turned while a blade etched a
By Jeremy Paden|2017-10-06T14:07:13-04:00October 6th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
In March of this year, once the sun began to shine again and warm the earth, a neighbor with whom I chat—in the way you chat with those with whom you share a fence—told me he’d been sleeping very
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-10-06T13:26:02-04:00October 6th, 2017|Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
The Journey By : Marta M. Miranda-Straub Dedication to the Courage and Resilience of DV Survivors Welcome, Your courage has walked you here Your desperation has fueled your pace Your suffering paved the way Your wisdom will guide your
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-10-04T10:21:28-04:00October 4th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
Dawn By Marta Miranda-Straub There is nothing like the familiarity of a sleeping body Bundles of bones, flesh and blankets canvassing the dawn I sit and stare yawning at the sun This is my holy time and I invite
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-09-26T16:56:23-04:00September 26th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments
SOCIAL JUSTICE PRAYER by Marta Maria Miranda-Straub On this day, at this moment with this breath. En este dia, en este momento, con este respiro. We evoke the communal spirit of justice. Nosotros evocamos el spirito de comunidad y
By Marta Miranda-Straub|2017-09-26T16:46:27-04:00September 20th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|1 Comment
Cubalachain By Marta Maria Miranda-Straub I am from a place where roosters wake you up and chickens feed you breakfast, where pigs are slaughtered with grit and grace and every single part is used for something I
By Sherry Robinson|2017-05-19T12:18:14-04:00May 19th, 2017|Southern Voices|1 Comment
What is unique about literary voices of the American South? The American South has produced some of the greatest literary voices of the past two centuries: William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Lee Smith, among many others. Their
By Sandi Keaton-Wilson|2017-04-23T22:23:31-04:00April 22nd, 2017|Southern Voices|6 Comments
************************************************** FARMER Something about his face took topographical semblance to the soil where he toiled. Each year plowed furrows deeper in brow; erosion took his body like the backfield. Weather worked both man and land Head and hand and
